1889 in poetry
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[edit] Events
[edit] Works published
- Robert Browning, Asolando
- Eugene Field, A Little Book of Western Verse, including "Little Boy Blue" and "Wynkyn, Blynkyn and Nod"
- Amy Levy, A London Plane Tree
- Walter Pater, Appreciations: With an Essay on Style
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, 3rd series
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Demeter and Other Poems; he writes "Crossing the Bar" in October as he crosses the Solent
- Govardhanram N. Tripathi, Lilavatijivankala, a tribute to his dead daughter (Indian, writing in Gujarati)[1]
- W.B. Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, including "The Wanderings of Oisin", "The Song of the Happy Shepherd", "The Stolen Child", "Down By The Salley Gardens" (Kegan Paul, Trench & Company)[2]
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 27 — Arnulf Øverland, Norwegian poet (died 1968)
- June 23 — Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (Ukraine)
- July 30 - Dorothy Wellesley (born "Dorothy Violet Ashton"; died 1956), styled Lady Gerald Wellesley between 1914 and 1943, English socialite, author, poet and literary editor
- August 5 — Conrad Aiken
- August 19 — Arthur David Waley
- September 15 — Claude McKay, Jamaican
- October 31 — Napoleon Lapathiotis (Greek)
- William Hervey Allen
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 31 — Horatius Bonar, Scottish poet
- June 8 — Gerard Manley Hopkins, 54, English poet, of typhoid
- June 15 — Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet
- September 23 — Eliza Cook, 70, English poet
- October 25 — Émile Augier, French dramatist and poet
- November 18 — William Allingham, Irish poet
- December 10 — Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian poet and dramatist
- December 12 — Robert Browning, English poet
- November — Martin Farquhar Tupper, 79, English writer and poet
- Date not known:
- Amy Levy, English poet and novelist, by suicide
- Cornelius Mathews
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Archive: William Butler Yeats (W. B. Yeats) (1865 - 1939)" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 22, 2008
